Danish Fuel Enceinte portable by Rene Sundahl is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award d'Argent in Édition Limitée Competition Category.
ArgentÉdition Limitée· 2023
Danish Fuel Enceinte portable
by Rene Sundahl
Client: Danish Fuel
A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Édition Limitée Category
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The Design
About Danish Fuel Enceinte portable
Danish Fuel est une enceinte portable conçue à l'intérieur d'un jerrycan métallique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, recyclé et revalorisé. La rouille et la peinture d'origine sont éliminées par traitement au four et sablage, puis le bidon reçoit un thermolaquage dans une finition satinée verte. Le panneau frontal est réalisé en contreplaqué moulé avec une couche supérieure en chêne fumé. La plaque de commande, les pieds et les plaques de marquage sont en aluminium anodisé. L'enceinte intègre un haut-parleur de basses, un haut-parleur d'aigus et un amplificateur de classe D. Le son est diffusé via Bluetooth ou par câble auxiliaire, et l'alimentation provient d'une batterie ou du secteur. Chaque exemplaire porte un numéro d'identification unique.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Argent
Danish Fuel Enceinte portable est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Danish Fuel Enceinte portable est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Danish Fuel Enceinte portable est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Many people have found that electronics don´t fit into interior design. Either a speaker is most likely ugly and plays good music or beautiful and plays poorly. The goal for this design is to create a portable speaker in which everyone should be spellbound with incredible design and renewable sound. To kick off the home interior style, and make enjoy the favorite smash hit wrapped in an Upcycled World War II fuel can. Personalized with unique ID no. The speaker is designed, selected, and Made in Denmark by a woman.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Electronics:
- ciare 6.5” midrange neo woofer + 1” neo tweeter.
- Class D amplifier. 160w
- equalizer backend, DSP
- equalizer front. Bass + Treble.
Connection:
- bluetooth 5.3
- aux
Power:
- 160watts
- battery. LG 1860mh with BMS control / 72 hours playing time.
- limited to 95 db.
Measurements.:
- height 48cm / wide 35cm / dept 17cm.
- weight 7.2kg - Tags
- Upcycle, speaker, homedecor, homedesign, interiordesign, limitededition
- Production Technology
- Materials:
- upcycled metal Jerry can. World War 2. Old rust and paint removed by furnace and sandblasting.
- color. Powder coating. Satin surface. Isapis green.
- molded plywood. 10 layers of 1mm veener + 1 top layer in Smoked Oak.
- anodized aluminium control plate + feet + marking plate + ID plate. - Design Challenge
- Make good sound in an old metal world war 2 jerry can were a challenge. Dampening work took using various materials and testing to find the right acoustic sound. Sourcing and designing the parts and make it go along with the visuals - make the speaker practical and visual beauty. Not only the make the product capable to produce even just in a limited numbers was difficult.
- Research
- According to the most known brands among portable speakers it´s found that most of them are made by men with a technical background and to approach the hi-fi market rater than the woman who shall use it in their home. There was a gab in the market and we could not find any sustainable solution. A real craftman ship. Most speakers a bulk manufactured in thousand of numbers. To find a speaker that was beyond tech but a sculpture and piece of art did not excist.
- Inspiration
- The jerry can be designed back in 1937, to contain supplies for the armies. The allies nicknamed the Germans, Jerries, as slang for German. As the small Einheits-kanister was a German invention - thereby the name a jerry can. The allies duplicated the design and just before D-day in 1944 more than 21 million of Jerry cans were made. "Without these cans, it would have been impossible for our armies to cut their way across France at a lightning pace during the German blitz”. - President Roosevelt
- Project Duration
- September 2021 - december 2022 in Denmark, Jutland. Our first design was revealed at Salone Int. Del Mobile in 2014.
- Operation Flow
- Bluetooth and Aux. Powered by battery or 220v.
- Patents
- EU design rights to Seacreed Service A/S
- Image Credits
- Image #1, Illustrator Alexander IE, 2022
Optional image #2, Illustrator Alexander IE, 2022
Optional image #3, Illustrator Alexander IE, 2022
Optional image #4, Illustrator Alexander IE, 2022
Optional image #2, Illustrator Alexander IE, 2022
Video credits: Waqas Naveed
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